Super excited and honoured to be one of five artists in the inaugural Experimental Choreographic Lab, supported by Performance Space and Critical Path Choreographic Research Centre.
Five days of deep diving into process and creative development, culminating in a public showing at Critical Path.
I'll be exploring the notion of hybrid bodies, cross-species amalgamations of human/animal/machine. The project begins with an investigation into kinetic body extensions that can engender new movement languages grounded in metamorphic embodiment.

Repeat After Me
I often wished for a third arm, to make my life easier. Getting up in the morning, grooming and getting ready for the day … surely more efficient with the help of a robotic arm. But I forgot about the training!

Using improvised performance as a research methodology, I enquire into future worlds, where humans and robots live with, learn from, and adapt to each other. Raising questions as to who is becoming-human, or indeed, who or what is becoming-robot.

12th February, 2024 SHErobots Exhibition Launch, TU Delft Library, The Netherlands
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Credits: 
Concept, choreography and performance: Lian Loke
Kuka Iiwa robot courtesy of Micah Prendergast, Cognitive Robotics Lab (TUD)
Robot programming: Charlotte Firth (UNSW), Lynn Masuda (USYD), Yi Zhao (USYD)
Music: Lindsay Webb
Vocals: Bronwyn Turnbull
Performance consultants: Lee-Anne Litton, Bronwyn Turnbull

Excited to be delivering a course with two of the pioneering HCI researchers in somaesthetics, Thecla Schiphorst and Kia Hook.
CHI2021 Course 1044 - Designing for Sensory Appreciation: Cultivating Somatic Approaches to Experience Design
May 8-13, 2021
Online Virtual Conference (originally Yokohama, Japan)
https://chi2021.acm.org/

Making art with one of my fave collaborators, the extraordinary Garth Knight. A photographic series called Ebi Metamorph to be exhibited in Elena Knox's Volcana Brainstorm as part of the Yokohama Triennale in Japan.

Thrilled to be performing in an art-science collaboration with Dr Elena Knox (Waseda University) and Garth Knight as part of the Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama, Tokyo.
Performance date: Saturday, 28th September 2019

Fabrication team:
Abhiruchi Chhikara
Susana Alarcon

Heartfelt thanks to Ruchi and Susana for their incredible work on the lasercutting, 3D printing and assembly of the shrimp tail and electronic led fibreoptic feelers, and Maya Petrovna for helping me make the headpiece.

With kind permission from the University of Sydney Vet School and Dr Glenn Shea, we were able to access the incredible horse anatomy collection for a test photoshoot.
Photos by Baki Kocaballi

Performance artist playing the Ice host for secret fringe event Ice.Smoke.Bär during Dark Mofo, Hobart. Curated by Anand, Alice and Allona.
Thursday 13th, Friday 14th June.
Photo: Hannah Love

Costume designer for
Living Room Theatre
107 Projects, Redfern Sydney, 2018

Lola dancing to Copacabana in the Dissection Room, Vet School, JD Stewart Building, University of Sydney
The Living Room Theatre Company, March 2018